So -- do you like having access to birth control?

iowagirl

From NARAL Pro-Choice America: Take Action!

President Bush's new head of federal family-planning programs believes that birth control is "demeaning" to women.

Did you have to read that twice? So did we.

Late last week, after pledging to bring the country together after his electoral losses, President Bush appointed Eric Keroack to lead the Department of Health and Human Services' family-planning program - which helps more than five million people annually at 4,600 clinics nationwide.

Keroack has dedicated his career to telling women that birth control and abortion are wrong. He most recently was the medical director for A Woman's Concern, a network of six anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" in Massachusetts that maintains a policy that states: "the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness."

Putting a doctor who opposes birth control in charge of federal family-planning programs is just plain irresponsible.

Help us block Keroack from assuming this influential position. Send a message to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, urging him to reject Keroack's appointment today.

http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/hhs_famplannom_1106?rk=q7ATWi61QYX7E

alafairnadia

"the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness."

wait, what does that even mean? if we homebrewed birth control, would it be ok? if we got it at the farmer's market? WTF?

iowagirl

Yeah, grow it all in your back yard. Or if you had a lab in your basement (alongside the meth lab, of course), you could make your own birth control pills. No distribution necessary.